Safety/Health

Armed attack at work: Staff can fight back

02/04/2016

It’s a sad fact of life: Increasing numbers of employers have decided they must train workers how to respond to an active shooter assault on the workplace—but with a tactical twist.

How do employers help employees quit smoking?

02/02/2016

Employers use a number of ideas to try and break their workers’ smoking habits

Use the right words when pointing employees to EAP

01/27/2016

When you mention to employees that the company has an EAP service, do so in a generic and consistent manner.

The painful truth: Prescription drug abuse on the rise at work

01/25/2016

Employee drug abuse continues to be the trend that just won’t go away. And it’s not just illegal drugs causing problems these days.

Ignore safety issues, prepare to pay up

01/07/2016

Dollar Tree has had to give up some green following an OSHA investigation that uncovered a series of recurring safety issues that the discount retail chain failed to address until the authorities forced it to. Dollar Tree late last year agreed to settle 13 OSHA citations by paying fines totaling $825,000.

How to accommodate employees and job applicants with HIV

01/03/2016

The EEOC last month published Living with HIV Infection, which explains how employees and applicants are protected from bias and harassment due to their HIV status.

OSHA launches violence prevention in health care site

12/22/2015

Noting that health care workers are more than four times more likely than other employees to experience workplace violence, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has launched a new website to help health care providers curtail violence at work.

OSHA fines to spike by 80%; first increase since 1990

11/09/2015

For the first time in 25 years, employers hit by federal workplace safety violations will see an increase in financial penalties, thanks to a little-noticed provision tucked into a budget bill signed by President Obama on Nov. 2.

Download a new guide explaining OSHA training standards

10/28/2015

OSHA has released a new guide spelling out the occupational safety and health training employers must provide to workers.

Sometimes you’re justified to order mental exam

10/17/2015

As long as you can show a business necessity for asking an employee to undergo a mental examination, there’s no ADA or Fair Employment and Housing Act liability. Erratic, insubordinate behavior that continues after a request to stop is a good business reason.